jonsidneyb
Well-known member
Since March 2006
Yup, I intend to do similarly! Our forum anniversary is actually in November, so timing wise it may even work out!tell me about it... mine turned 10 in feb of this year, for its anniversary, I upgraded it from vB 3.8x to XenForo best anniversary present to my members ever
Just over 11 years with various software.Last week was the 11th birthday of our forum community (gosh in a couple of years that means I'll have been there practically half of my life!!!). Anyway, so I was interested to know how long you all have been running your communities?
We're all March babies haha! I'm just glad I wasn't born a day later because I would hate to be an April Fools baby lol!!!
welcome to the communityFirst post here but this is as good a place as any to start...
9 years active so far, 1 year of thinking before hand. Started with vBulletin 2.0 in Dec 2001 and currently run 3.8.7. I am here 'cause I am seriously thinking about moving to Xenforo instead of using the VB 4 Suite I have.
First post here but this is as good a place as any to start...
9 years active so far, 1 year of thinking before hand. Started with vBulletin 2.0 in Dec 2001 and currently run 3.8.7. I am here 'cause I am seriously thinking about moving to Xenforo instead of using the VB 4 Suite I have.
9 years active so far, 1 year of thinking before hand. Started with vBulletin 2.0 in Dec 2001 and currently run 3.8.7. I am here 'cause I am seriously thinking about moving to Xenforo instead of using the VB 4 Suite I have.
Welcome aboard, dear friend. As EQnoble has already mentioned, you might as well get your hands dirty and try out the demo.
welcome to the community
Yeah do yourself the favor and try it out the software. With 9 years under your belt playing with forum software, adapting to using this system will be cake for you. I also have vb licenses (1 in my name and a slew under others as purchasers.) I do not use my 4 publishers suite (or any other any more for myself or under proxy) and if you haven't switched to that yet...I would seriously consider printing out your license from them and throwing it off of a bridge. No let me stop and be nice. XF really is the bee's knees when it comes down to it.
Have you had a chance to play with the ACP?
Thanks for the welcome people. Been hanging around here for a bit keeping an eye on things since finding out about Xenforo a while back. There looks to be a couple of things missing at the moment for me to do the dirty on vBulletin but may buy a copy to play with until they materialise in one form or another. Still deciding on that one though. I will try out the various demos (again I think, been a while!) and see how things have progressed...Welcome aboard, dear friend. As EQnoble has already mentioned, you might as well get your hands dirty and try out the demo.
My timescale definitely depends on available features, I may still roll out VB 4 due to the missing things. I see by your sig that 2 of the things I would definitely need, you need too - an infraction system, paid subs of various lengths - but my additionals would be limited guest viewing and post/thread restrictions on certain usergroups (a forceable way ti get them to subscribe ) Once I find all that plus a few other bits I need I will do the big switcharoo...As others have suggested, XF is definitely the way to go. I obviously don't know how modified your forum is, but if its anything like mine you will get a little disheartened at the features that are currently missing from XF. I say disheartened because I'd love to move to XF now (finding time to do it though would be a problem!) but worry-ye-not, over the next few months XF will play catch up with the feature list and, I have no doubt, add a few new ones of their own.
It depends on your timescale really - applies to everyone watching XF with existing long-term boards to be fair. I know I will be moving to XF, how quickly really depends on how quickly the features are added that I need and I know quite a few are in the same position.
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